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Frederick Guthrie

1833 - 1886

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Frederick Guthrie FRS FRSE (15 October 1833 – 21 October 1886) was a British physicist, chemist, and academic author. He was the son of Alexander Guthrie, a London tradesman, and the younger brother of mathematician Francis Guthrie. Along with William Fletcher Barrett he founded the Physical Society of London (now the Institute of Physics) in 1874 and was president of the society from 1884 until 1886. He believed that science should be based on experimentation rather than discussion. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Frederick Guthrie is the 508th most popular physicist (up from 645th in 2019), the 2,527th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,487th in 2019) and the 55th most popular British Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Frederick Guthrie ranks 508 out of 851. Before him are Alfred Ewing, Eugen Goldstein, Gaspard de Prony, Giovanni Aldini, Pierre Victor Auger, and Dmitri Ivanenko. After him are Nicola Cabibbo, George Zweig, Jeremiah P. Ostriker, G. M. B. Dobson, Lester Germer, and Yakir Aharonov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1833, Frederick Guthrie ranks 40. Before him are Félix Bracquemond, Lazarus Fuchs, Manuel Amador Guerrero, Benedykt Dybowski, Theodor Meynert, and Henry Roscoe. After him are Constantine V of Constantinople, Louis Paulsen, Kâmil Pasha, Zacharie Astruc, Eugen Langen, and Maurice Loewy. Among people deceased in 1886, Frederick Guthrie ranks 31. Before him are Marco Minghetti, José Hernández, Eliza Lynch, Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Adolf Lüderitz, and Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry. After him are Eugène Isabey, Alexandre-Émile Béguyer de Chancourtois, Albert Küchler, Gustav Fischer, Pyotr Tkachev, and Juan Esteban Pedernera.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Frederick Guthrie ranks 2,528 out of 8,785. Before him are Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild (1840), Solomon (1902), Sylvia Pankhurst (1882), Samuel Smiles (1812), Jamie Dornan (1982), and Dodie Smith (1896). After him are Nigel Hawthorne (1929), David Mumford (1937), Brian Naylor (1923), John William Draper (1811), Joseph Lancaster (1778), and Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece (1968).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Frederick Guthrie ranks 55. Before him are Louis Harold Gray (1905), John Henry Poynting (1852), John Dollond (1706), John Canton (1718), John Houghton (1931), and Alfred Ewing (1855). After him are G. M. B. Dobson (1889), John Leslie (1766), Paul Davies (1946), William Robert Grove (1811), Joseph Larmor (1857), and Gilbert Walker (1868).

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